Tell me why you allowed Le Gardeur de Repentigny
to leave the city?"
"I did not allow him to leave the city," said he, twitching his ugly
features, for he disliked the interest she expressed in Le Gardeur.
"I would fain have kept him here if I could. The Intendant, too,
had desperate need of him. It was his sister and Colonel Philibert
who spirited him away from us."
"Well, a ball in Quebec is not worth twisting a curl for in the
absence of Le Gardeur de Repentigny!" replied she. "You shall
promise me to bring him back to the city, Chevalier, or I will dance
with you no more."
Angelique laughed so gaily as she said this that a stranger would
have interpreted her words as all jest.
"She means it, nevertheless," thought the Chevalier. "I will
promise my best endeavor, Mademoiselle," said he, setting hard his
teeth, with a grimace of dissatisfaction which did not escape the
eye of Angelique; "moreover, the Intendant desires his return on
affairs of the Grand Company, and has sent more than one message to
him already, to urge his return.
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